Table 4.
Distribution of Carbapenemase Resistance Genes in 16S rRNA Methylase Genes- Positive and Negative Strains
16S RMTases | Carbapenemase | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Negative Strains | KPC | NDM | IMP | NDM+KPC | IMP+KPC | |
16S + (n=114) | 3 (2.6) | 79 (69.3) | 19 (16.7) | 4 (3.5) | 8 (7.0) | 1 (0.9) |
16S - (n=66) | 2 (3.0) | 36 (54.5) | 24 (36.4) | 1 (1.5) | 3 (4.5) | 0 |
P-values | 0.609 | 0.034 | 0.003 | 0.394 | 0.375 | 0.633 |